[asterisk-users] Question about hardware

[Wireless]

You can start off using "Soft Phones" on your PC (they are free) at 1st once
your happy that you want to play voip then you can get either a VOIP hard
phone or a VOIP to analog adaptor (Analog Telephone Adaptor), the latter
provides you with an FXS port that you can plug a normal phone into or
cordless just like the one that your phone company give you.  For FXS I have
used Linksys SPA3000 which also has the advantage of giving you an FXO port
(a connection to the PSTN) as well so you do not need the X100P card.  One
very nice feature of the SPA3000 is that if the power goes off or your
Asterisk box dies the ATA will just bridge the FXO and FXS ports together so
that your phone still works, this is an extreamly useful feature when trying
to pass the wife test (this is the hardest part of VOIP by a very long
chalk).

Good Luck

Harvey


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Sullivan" <michael at espersunited.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Question about hardware


> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:29 -0600, jason wrote:
> > cheapy PC (throw away PII is fine) and if you want to use the PSTN, a
> > X100P FXO card. These can be had on ebay for 11 bucks, but I understand
> > that even that pushes the bank some days.  You don't need the card, you
> > only need it if you want to receive or place calls on the PSTN.  You can
> > use asterisk to do all sorts of ip telephony with just the box that it
> > runs on.   Also, be sure to grab the free Oreily book, Asterisk the
> > Future of Telephony.  A link to it was posted recently.
>
> I ordered the card off ebay.  Is there anything else I'd need - special
> cords, phones, etc?  I'd have to try for them next month or after, but
> I'd prefer to know what they are now so that I can be looking for
> them...
>
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